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South Alabama Athletic Hall of Fame

Kaitlyn Beans

Kaitlyn Beans

  • Class
    2017
  • Induction
    2022
  • Sport(s)
    Women's Track & Field
• Earned second-team All-America honors in the triple jump at the NCAA Outdoor Championship as a junior and was an honorable mention All-American each of her first two seasons at South
• Qualified for the NCAA East Region Preliminary Round in the event as a senior also
• Named the most outstanding field athlete of the year at the 2017 Sun Belt Conference Indoor Championship
• A five-time Sun Belt champion in the triple jump — winning three outdoor and two indoor titles — and the winner of the long jump at the league's indoor meet her senior year
• Also earned all-league recognition in the two events on four other occasions, while scoring points 14 times at SBC Championships during her career
• Was the Jaguar Female Student-Athlete of the Year and the school's NCAA Woman of the Year nominee in 2016-17; one of the Sun Belt's two nominees for the latter honor as well
• Set school records that currently still stand in the indoor (12.89m) and outdoor (13.38m) triple jumps as well as the indoor long jump (6.14m), also ranking third in the outdoor long jump (6.11m)
• Finished fifth in the East Region and 10th nationally in the triple jump at the end of the regular season as a freshman
• Stood 16th in the region and 31st in the country at the end of the 2017 regular season in the event
• Ranked 31st regionally and among the top 55 in the nation in the event her junior year
• As a sophomore was among the top 40 in the East and top 70 nationally in the regular-season triple jump rankings
• Received an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship Award following the conclusion of her career after making the Sun Belt Conference Commissioner's List on three occasions and the Academic Honor Roll her senior year
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